{"id":9521,"date":"2016-01-11T06:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=9521"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:48:34","slug":"am-i-a-horrible-parent-take-the-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/11\/am-i-a-horrible-parent-take-the-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Horrible Parent? Take The Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have times\u00a0where we collapse at the end of a rough day and think things like &#8220;am I a horrible parent?&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m just not cut out for this&#8221; or &#8220;I think there was a mistake and I was given tiny little monsters instead of children.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent.png\" alt=\"am i a horrible parent\" width=\"1152\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent-600x314.png 600w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent-390x204.png 390w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/am-i-a-horrible-parent-1000x523.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the next time you question your parenting abilities at the end of a particularly hard day, refer to this quiz to get a definitive answer to the question &#8220;Am I a horrible parent?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself <strong>1 point<\/strong> for every child who is sleeping <strong>1 bonus point<\/strong> for every child who went to bed without screaming, fussing, crying or being nasty.<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself <strong>2\u00a0points<\/strong> for every child who ate today (cheese puffs, chocolate, ice cream and french fries all count!)<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself <strong>3\u00a0points<\/strong> for every child who did not sit in his\/her own filth for an extended period of time today.<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself <strong>4\u00a0points<\/strong> for every child who did not require emergency care from a medical professional today.<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself <strong>5 points<\/strong> for every child who\u00a0smiled at least once today and <strong>2 bonus points<\/strong> for every child who laughed today.<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself <strong>10 points\u00a0<\/strong>for every child you did not forget, lose, abandon, give away or sell to the sweet old lady at the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>Give yourself <strong>15 points<\/strong> for every\u00a0hug, kiss and &#8220;I Love You&#8221; you gave to your children today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scoring:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you scored <strong>1 point or more<\/strong>: You&#8217;re\u00a0doing an awesome job, keep up the great work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have times\u00a0where we collapse at the end of a rough day and think things like &#8220;am I a horrible parent?&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m just not cut out for this&#8221; or &#8220;I think there was a mistake and I was given tiny little monsters instead of children.&#8221; So the next time you question your parenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[420,149,428],"class_list":["post-9521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-life","tag-mommy-life","tag-parenting","tag-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9912,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521\/revisions\/9912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}